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Symantec, Informatica Partner on Data Storage and Archiving
Data integration software specialist Informatica and security firm Symantec announced a partnership to address the challenges of big data. Under the agreement, Symantec expands its existing relationship with Informatica to resell Informatica Data Archive. The new agreement is designed to bolster Symantec’s portfolio of data protection, email and file archiving solutions with new capabilities and…
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Overall IT Spending
Overall IT Spending Gartner predicts that we’ll see overall global IT spending rise a relatively healthy 5.6 percent to $3.6 trillion in 2011. SMB IT Budgets This year SMBs are planning on spending 8 percent more than what they initially expected in the second half of 2010, Spiceworks recently reported . Based on a survey…
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Slumping PC Sales Could Mean Trouble for Microsoft Windows
Microsoft’s quarterly numbers may rival the GDP of a small nation, but some numbers for the most recent quarter have analysts suggesting the company needs to expand beyond the traditional lines of business that fuel so much of its bottom line. Microsoft’s third-quarter revenue hit $16.43 billion, a year-over-year increase of 13 percent. Net income…
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Small Businesses Don’t Leverage e-Commerce: Survey
Based on an April poll by Newtek Business Services of approximately 1,200 independent business owners, small business owners apparently lack e-commerce initiative. The low percentage of clients taking payments online—20 to 25 percent—suggests that many business owners do not know that their site can be a useful tool for selling merchandise as well as collecting…
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Tablet Sales to Grow Among Businesses: Report
The popularity and anticipated growth in the tablet market has set the portable consumer device world in a global tizzy, or so it would seem. New In-Stat research indicates that this tablet frenzy isn’t quite as global as one would think, as only three regions—North America, Asia/Pacific and Western Europe—will be responsible for 91 percent…
